Original Mixed Media Painting “Hopi Maidens” [SOLD]

Three Hopi maidens with maiden whorl hair styles are presented in frontal view, one holding a Hopi basket and the other two in front of pottery water jars.  There is minimal landscape and no sky features.  The artist has presented the three females without distractions from other objects.

The artist is listed in a biographical publication under the name Janeele Talayumptewa Numkena.  The painting is signed Numkena Talayumptewa, so we are unsure of whether the artist’s last name is Numkena or Talayumptewa.

The artist has exhibited at Hopi-tu Tsootsvilla in Sedona, Arizona, received an award at the 1991 Gallup Inter-tribal Indian Ceremonial in Gallup, New Mexico, and has exhibited at Santa Fe Indian Market.  That is the extent of the information I have found so far.  I do not know the age of the artist.  The painting is signed in lower right and dated 1990.

Condition: original condition

Recommended Reading:  Hopi Painting: the World of the Hopis by Patricia Janis Broder.  This book is currently not available at Adobe Gallery.

Provenance: from the collection of Marvin and Betty Rubin who purchased it from the artist in 1990.